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Fact-checking Trump's false claims about voter fraud and 'rigged' elections

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Former President Donald Trump 's election-year message to his supporters is clear and often repeated: If Democrats win the November election, blame voter fraud.

Trump ’s election claims are wildly false, just as they were in 2016 and 2020 .

PolitiFact: The election system in our country makes the heist Trump described both unlikely and impossibly elaborate.

Mail-in voting provides more opportunity for fraud than in-person voting, but it’s still rare.

About two-thirds of states have laws requiring voters to show ID at the polls.

Trump has spread many falsehoods about voting by mail, even though he has sometimes used himself as a Florida voter.

The RNC sued North Carolina to enforce a state law requiring courts to forward to the state elections board forms showing when people indicate they can’t serve on juries because they are noncitizens.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections told PolitiFact that it is enforcing the new law and that it found nine such individuals and is investigating their citizenship status.

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